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Vickie

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:: 1972, Master Marine, Bayou La Batre, AL USA
Specs:: ( 68 ft ) 91 GT
Sunk:: Friday June 18, 2004 - Moriches Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:: 40°43.382' -72°46.562'

Vickie reef

"Vickie" is a very common name, not useful for identification. But note the red "53" on the remains of the wheelhouse. Those are the first two digits of the "Official Number." Some digging turned up the rest: 538793. Another Master Marine trawler, home-ported in New Bedford.

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Moriches Artificial Reef

Moriches Artificial Reef (historical)

2.4 nautical miles south of Moriches Inlet, 0.54 sq miles
Depth: 70 - 75 ft

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July 15, 2022

ShipBuildingHistory.com

July 15, 2022

ShipBuildingHistory.com is a resource that I have often used to look up many of the reefs and a few of the wrecks in this website. I recently sent in an update, and received a notice that the author had passed away. The next thing that usually happens in these cases is that the website disappears when the hosting goes unpaid, so I immediately grabbed a copy for myself.

That's when I found that the original site was almost a gigabyte in size, and 95% of that was formatting. So I cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and added some navigation structures and other niceties that you would expect. Then I posted my copy as a sub-site here:

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